{"id":5118,"date":"2020-06-30T09:37:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T09:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5118"},"modified":"2023-05-05T08:15:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T08:15:25","slug":"making-more-sense-of-bluetooth-advertising-scans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/making-more-sense-of-bluetooth-advertising-scans\/","title":{"rendered":"Making More Sense of Bluetooth Advertising Scans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When working with Bluetooth beacons and\/or gateways and looking at raw Bluetooth data it can often become confusing which device is which. When setting up beacons using manufacturers&#8217; apps, it&#8217;s a common occurrence for our customers to mistakenly connect to smartphones or fitness trackers rather than a beacon and wonder why the connection doesn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RaMBLE is a useful Android app that helps decode the Bluetooth devices around you. It attempts to classify devices so you can identify them:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"392\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/RaMBLEBluetoothScanner.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/RaMBLEBluetoothScanner.png 392w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/RaMBLEBluetoothScanner-168x300.png 168w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 85vw, 392px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The scanning runs in background and also logs advertising so that the data can be exported for analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When working with Bluetooth beacons and\/or gateways and looking at raw Bluetooth data it can often become confusing which device is which. When setting up beacons using manufacturers&#8217; apps, it&#8217;s a common occurrence for our customers to mistakenly connect to smartphones or fitness trackers rather than a beacon and wonder why the connection doesn&#8217;t work. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/making-more-sense-of-bluetooth-advertising-scans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Making More Sense of Bluetooth Advertising Scans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8662,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions\/8662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}